{"id":108888,"date":"2026-03-17T09:27:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T09:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/i-was-facebooks-youngest-engineer-at-17-i-left-meta-at-a-moment-when-ais-lead-can-change-every-few-months\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T09:27:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T09:27:26","slug":"i-was-facebooks-youngest-engineer-at-17-i-left-meta-at-a-moment-when-ais-lead-can-change-every-few-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/i-was-facebooks-youngest-engineer-at-17-i-left-meta-at-a-moment-when-ais-lead-can-change-every-few-months\/","title":{"rendered":"I was Facebook&#8217;s youngest engineer at 17. I left Meta at a moment when AI&#8217;s lead can change every few months."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Michael Sayman, 29, a former Meta product executive who left the company&#8217;s Superintelligence Labs to become President of Product Ecosystems at Wh\u2026 [<a href='https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/facebooks-youngest-engineer-at-17-leaving-meta-2026-3' target='_blank'>read more<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Michael Sayman, 29, a former Meta product executive who left the company&#8217;s Superintelligence Labs to become President of Product Ecosystems at Wh\u2026 [read more]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"post_views_count":["13"]},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-108888","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-make-money"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}